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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of Harry’s mistress’s children was killed how?
(a) In a hurricane
(b) In a car accident
(c) In battle
(d) In a plane crash

2. What is Harry’s mistress’s reply when he says in the beginning of the story, “I don’t want to move. There is no sense in moving now except to make it easier for you”?
(a) It doesn’t make it easier for me
(b) Don’t be obtuse
(c) That’s cowardly
(d) I’m leaving

3. The Sette Communi was a group of municipalities in the Veneto region that spoke what language?
(a) The Udmurt language
(b) The Cimbrian language
(c) The Sami language
(d) The Frisian language

4. How many children did Harry’s female companion have?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 2
(d) 3

5. When dictating to his companion, Harry describes living in an apartment where you could see the wood and coal man’s place. What did the wood and coal man also sell?
(a) Bad wine
(b) Pigs
(c) Butchered hens
(d) Olives

Short Answer Questions

1. As his companion dictates, Harry describes renting a trout stream after the war. Harry says that what individual had a fine fishing season that year?

2. Harry notes to the woman in the beginning of the story that this is the first time the vultures have done what?

3. When was the Hôtel de Crillon opened in Paris?

4. It is noted of Harry’s past, “It was strange, too, wasn't it, that when he fell in love with another woman, that woman should always have more” what “than the last one?”

5. What does Harry’s mistress repeatedly ask him if he’d like her to do in the beginning of the story?

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